New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-20
SUPPLEMENT.
PAGES 9 TO IL.
PRINCE AND PRIME DONNIE.
rr,rpp1Tyrs AND EARTHQUAKE.


CELEBRITIES AND EARrhQUAhE
VIM" III" "'' PARIS March 4.
Christine Nilsson 10 here, much the worse lor .ne
nervous shock she received on Ash wednesday
morning at Mentone. She was there WIN hci
future granddaughter and the young ladys 1a'hei'
Senior Angel de Miranda, to whom she 10 10 DC
married, The hotel where she stopped was in"on
shaken but not utterly ruined. However u was
too much damaged tor the dodgers who rusheo on.
of IL at in the morning. In scare thas oopii'o"
all the men of manlness and the Iadies Oh oao,'s'
20 venture back into IT, Nine. Nilsson maze her
c.capa clad In a sheet and blanket, in which gor-
ments she went all the way to Marsellles. on INC
ionrnev aha caught a severe cold which mas kep'
her in bed since she arrived here. her lu'uie supp
daughter was In toilet no less 1mpro'isco anu III"
us,a, and Senior Angel de Miranda was in Han
ma, n,cbt-cown and muslin coverlet which he
matched up before he rushed out OF his bedroom.
The common danger which they experienced ana
the devotion the Spaniard showed 70 the Swcdish
nightingale have drawn closer their bonds of love
and removed her hesitation to burn n second time
torch at Hymen's altar. The marriage Is shortly
TO take place and in the most private and I'M
theatrical manner probably before an English
registrar Sho declares that she is done forever
with the Riviera, but she intends often to 60 TO
Madrid.
They'force Of destiny" was curiously exercised
dining The. Riviera earthquake on Miss Mathde
Herr who was fulfilling an operate engagement al
the Teatro Chiabrera where she had sang for two
months and was to sing three more nights, as
prlma donna in @La S(Orza del Destlno. MISS
Herr was born in New York and bred in California.
She Is ambitious to attain very high POSITION on
the lyrical stage before she returns to America She
has great dramatic power. lovely voice OF SIN
guarly rich kind, and is very magnetic. We'll,
after returning from the stage that night she went
as usual to her apartment in the hotel and took no
part in the revelries of the closing hours of the
Carniy al. Owing to the noise of the mlIth-mad
crowd outside she could not sleep. but toward
o'clock things quieted down and she was beginning
to doze when the house gave violent start, and
then another and another. Miss Herr jumped mp
but the floor woDbed that she could hardly keep
her feet. The window was open and she saw the
top of wing Of the house falling down. It's an
earthquake" she thought, and snatchng up quilt
from the bed and mantle she quickly put them
on and tried to rush down stairs. But the stairs
were dancing jig. They were of marble with iron
bausters and had elasticity, so that whole steps
tumbled Oft whenever the heaving eaItE made the
house crazy male singer from another floor, who
had monev and jewels. belonging to himself and his
wife, flung the trunk across chasm after chasm ard
Jumped after it. But the prima donna felt she was
not equal to such leaps If she missed her footing
abe would he dashed to pieces in her fall. But
somehow the iron balmster kept IN place. and she
slid down by it. She and the other guests were ac-
commodated with coverings in the omnibuses OF
the establishment for four days. They hardly ate
or drank during that time. Whenever there was an
earthquake they got out. and whom the ground no
longer shook they got IN again. She with her quilt
and mantle fairly we'll clothed. But most OF
the other persons were only in nightgowns and an
able 10 obtain any other clothing They all stayed
until thoy able to get their trunks, which, as
the means of communication between top and bot
tom of the house had ceased, was no easy matter.
Muzio. who brought Adelina Patti out IN italy, was
to have gone thither with Verdi by the Wednesday
express from Milan. But the earthquake prevented
them from keeping .hcir appointment. One OF Miss
Here's best roles is in Aida" and Verdi was think
ing of her for an unpublished opera when he made
the appointment to go with Mnzio and see her 10
ala Sforza del Destiuo" She received her musical
education at Florence aud Milan and was a pupil
OF Poncbelli. the composer o La Giaconda"
When he died his wife was singing in it at
Piacenza. Miss Herr WAS asked TO take her place
and sang her score upward of sixty times
The earthquakes have sent the fashionable world
flying back here in horrible plight The Roths-
childs got away from Cannes in third class car
riaQe and came into Marseilles with q party OF
tipsy sailors and their Rwee:hearts, who had been
making O night of it at Nice. North British
Duchess was in particularly bad mess. She Is rich
beyond the dreams of avarice," has had two hus-
bands was naturally wild, and has never been,
since her second marriage, obliged to bride her
whms Her Grace had set of false teeth, made of
real ones carefully selected from the mouths OF
peasant girls, which she forgot In her flight from
Cannes The Prince of Wales had amused himself
to that extent at the Battle of Flowers and the
regiione that he did not whether the hotel in
which he was staying toppled over when he was
In 1t or not. during tho first shock of the earth
quake. But as he a first floor he did not feel
the rocking and starting movement half so much as
those who higher up. and was not to be forced
out of bed by his faithful valet who rushed 10 tell
his Royal Hghness that there had been an earth.
quake. But the third shock which came eighteen
hours later, frightened HIM away a couple of days
before the time he had arranged to leave. He, how
ever, stayed to unveil q fountain erected to the
memory of the late Duke Of Albany. When here he
wa, az usual on amusement bont. He went to see
that absurdly stupid play. . La Comtesse Sarah
at the Gymnasc. and also to see the actress who
plays the chief part In 1t, Jane Hading, at her
house. Koenng. her husband 10 rather fattered at
such attentions on the part Of the coming King.
JOSEPH II. CHOATES ORATORY UPSET
The recent reversal of the verdict in the suit OF Stew
art against Huntington calls up memories Of the lively